fiction


  • Drabble: Ahead of Time

    Prompt: Ahead of Time I can always tell when I’ve arrived too late. There’s a shift in the atmosphere that I can feel in my gut. In an ideal world, I could just leave and travel back again to an earlier time, but it isn’t that easy. You would think that time travel would give…


  • Drabble: Smoking a cigarette

    Prompt: A man is smoking a cigarette. Make me understand what he’s feeling without using any ‘thought’ verbs. Leathery skin spoke of how many hot summers the old man had seen regardless of how his hands shook. The bright white near his roots was a stark contrast from the cheap black hair color he had…


  • Drabble: Selling your soul

    Prompt: Someone wants to give away their soul for something. Satan tries to talk them out of it. “Look, your soul isn’t worth that much.” Lucifer said as his fingers glided over the piano keys. “Come on,” she smiled. “If you really are who you say, nothing should be out of your reach.” Lucifer frowned,…


  • Drabble: Prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse

    Prompt: A zombie apocalypse occurs in a society which has been ready for it for over a century. A flash of color in the night sky was the signal, and Stevie rushed over to the picnic blanket to get a good view. All night they had waited for this, shivering in the darkness and bundled…


  • Drabble: But you miss it

    Prompt: But you miss it It’s taken me a while to get used to living without you. The clothes only rarely get washed and the cat was never quite the same. I tell everyone that you’re chronically ill, that you travel frequently for your job, anything to keep from having to admit the truth. To…